Sooo...

I need to find a new designated writing night. It used to be that Thursdays were my writing nights, but now Thursdays are a night I go out for something called "fighter practice". In short, I get to play with sharp, pointy objects against other people with sharp pointy objects, but the pointy end is covered because stabbing your practice partner is not a nice thing to do.

So that means I need to find a new night for writing. I think it may end up being Mondays, because what better way for a writer to start her week than by writing and composing multiple other posts for the blog that require things like research? ^^

In short, the ball got dropped on this post. Hope everyone is ready for the holidays!

Swing batter...

So I have had the office to myself--more or less--for the past week. And let me say this:  as someone without the uber-advanced degree trying to tell people what they need to hear (even though I'm saying the exact same thing my boss would; I just don't get paid the big bucks), it makes for some rather difficult conversations. And trying to deal with opposing attorneys?  Yeah.... I don't know how many times I said the phrase "He is out of the office until Tuesday" to have them reply "Oh, then I'll just send him an e-mail!". The fact that there aren't permanent grooves in my tongue from where I had to bite to keep from saying "You have fun with that. He's going to circle you back to me anyway!"...

There are days when I feel majorly overwhelmed. I have about 5 different hats I can be wearing at any given time, and sometimes those hats get worn simultaneously.  It's frightening.

So yeah, I feel like I'm at bat, and given the fact that I tend to strike out?  It's not a fun feeling...

La Neve

It's always interesting to see how different people react to snow. Some people love it, some people hate it, and some people purposely move to a climate where it never occurs (and yes, that idea has crossed my mind a few times). Regardless of your feelings, it still happens in parts of the world around this time, and as a result warm clothes, chains, studded tires, and lots of wishing for summer-ish weather.

The entertaining thing for me today was finally finding out what kind of snow my area got. See, there's actually more than one type of snow that can fall. There's the wet snow that the Pacific Northwest is used to, there's the snow that's perfect for the mountains--skiing, snowboarding, etc--and then there's what hit our little valley today. This snow is like the snow I grew up with:  dry. It doesn't stick to the lawns, but instead blows about and ends up on the road, and as it gets driven on it compacts until it turns into ice. This makes driving terrifying for those who have not experienced it first hand. And even after driving in it since I learned how to drive, I still managed to hit a curb as I was leaving today while barely going 5 miles an hour. 

One of the chats I'm on kept talking about tire chains for driving. Well, I've never actually used those, though why I'm not sure. I think it has something to do with one of the city codes in the town where I grew up, but I never even got a set of chains for my car when I was there, and so I never learned how to put them on or take them off. Instead, I do my best to use common sense when the roads are bad:  make sure there is plenty of time to get where I need to go, and keep my eye open for others, because people can be crazy...